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MonsieurChoc posted:You just gotta watch good anime, like Slayers. like i kinda want to get into mech stuff but outside that. i never really cared.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:poo poo like that is why i never got into anime. like not even counting all the hosed up poo poo thats been dissected in interesting ways in this thread. but also just everything is transformer woman/girl/child thing. also the panzer girl stuff. its like my mind just doesn't compute anime. You can say that easily but I'm sure you've heard of Metal Gear Solid before.
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RareAcumen posted:You can say that easily but I'm sure you've heard of Metal Gear Solid before. like i like japanese stuff. the yakuza series, MGS, yoko taros weird poo poo.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:like i like japanese stuff. the yakuza series, MGS, yoko taros weird poo poo. Wait, where do you think anime comes from then? Anyway, on that track, Kirby's a pretty safe anime. No one's got a slave trade, there's no fanservice, it's actually remarkably clean all things considered.
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RareAcumen posted:Wait, where do you think anime comes from then? sorry. its not that i don't get or hate it, its just never been a thing for me. like i like some anime but over all. its just not my thing. its not that i am against dirty or hosed up anime or anything. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Aug 18, 2019 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:poo poo like that is why i never got into anime. like not even counting all the hosed up poo poo thats been dissected in interesting ways in this thread. but also just everything is transformer woman/girl/child thing. also the panzer girl stuff. its like my mind just doesn't compute anime. At one level it's always gonna just be Weird because it's a whole different culture - but it's all not transformer stuff? My favorite anime is Flying Witch which is basically if the 90's "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" was in the Japanese countryside.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:sorry. its not that i don't get or hate it, its just never been a thing for me. like i like some anime but over all. its just not my thing. Oh okay that I can understand. I probably did it wrong but I never got into GoT or South Park or a lot of shows so that's fair. I wonder what's gonna be the next big thing though. Stranger Things and GoT are over, I hear good things about I think it's HBO Chernobyl but aside from that I have no idea what the big shows are right now.
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RareAcumen posted:Oh okay that I can understand. I probably did it wrong but I never got into GoT or South Park or a lot of shows so that's fair. yeah, like i have nothing against people who like it or hate it. like i do like some stuff like fist of the north star and bezerk is good manga and i watched dbz when i was little. i am guessing the witcher show might get big but for right now, idk. Twincityhacker posted:At one level it's always gonna just be Weird because it's a whole different culture - but it's all not transformer stuff? My favorite anime is Flying Witch which is basically if the 90's "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" was in the Japanese countryside. i know that. i mean i like the yakuza games because its crime drama game from japan and its cultural tourism for me because its interesting to see how stuff is different. Like when a gun is pulled in the series, its giant big deal, least in cutscenes. unlike say US crime games/shows.
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MonsieurChoc posted:You just gotta watch good anime, like Slayers. 
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Slayers is great. A good, fun D&D adventure anime.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:like i kinda want to get into mech stuff but outside that. i never really cared. Macross Plus, OVA edition. Thank me later. Four hours long, top notch music and animation, and a really good story that is Top Gun IN SPAAAAACE with a strong cast.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Macross Plus, OVA edition. Thank me later. Four hours long, top notch music and animation, and a really good story that is Top Gun IN SPAAAAACE with a strong cast. thanks.
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Just watch all 110 episodes of legends of the galactic heroes, I swear it’s worth it!
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Leal posted:The "....I think..." line is loving gold. They don't even know what the gently caress https://twitter.com/A_Sentient_JDAM/status/1162602615378571264
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The anime fixation on 19th-century Germany creeps me out.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:poo poo like that is why i never got into anime. like not even counting all the hosed up poo poo thats been dissected in interesting ways in this thread. but also just everything is transformer woman/girl/child thing. also the panzer girl stuff. its like my mind just doesn't compute anime. Edit: whoops new page and of course it's already been recommended. It has zero fanservice of children or otherwise, the characters have noses and normal sized eyes, and nobody has purple or teal hair. It is also where this eternally magnificent image comes from 
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Captain Invictus posted:Maybe don't generalize a medium by the worst dregs of it. Give Legend of the Galactic Heroes a watch especially since you're into politics. It's a hard sci-fi series about space Prussia versus space USA and is very relevant to today's political climate despite bring made in the 80s/early 90s. It's legitimately one of the best tv shows I have ever seen, animated or not. sorry. i didn't mean to be a dickhead. also i don't think anime is all weird pedo poo poo or school girl battleships. i guess my point was i don't get various sub genres/cultures of anime. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Aug 18, 2019 |
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:The anime fixation on 19th-century Germany creeps me out. Watch Space Dandy, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and of course Jojo's even if there is kind of ehhhh stuff in there
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achillesforever6 posted:Yeah as much as I love FMA Brotherhood that kind of creeped me out (and then Vic had to make it extra hard by being a creep) i need to watch space dandy and jojo because their humor/style seems up my alley.
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Captain Invictus posted:Maybe don't generalize a medium by the worst dregs of it. Give Legend of the Galactic Heroes a watch especially since you're into politics. It's a hard sci-fi series about space Prussia versus space USA and is very relevant to today's political climate despite bring made in the 80s/early 90s. It's legitimately one of the best tv shows I have ever seen, animated or not. The original novels are being translated, too. On a similar note, I'd also like to recommend Monster and 20th Century Boys, though the latter was never animated.  Parakeet vs. Phone posted:And then you watch Brawl in Cell Block 99, and you wonder. What were the warning signs in that one? I haven't seen it and I don't know much about it.
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todd's got a new one hit wonderland - You Get What You Give by New Radicals genuinely never heard this one before the video but it and the band seem p. rad
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Captain Invictus posted:Maybe don't generalize a medium by the worst dregs of it. Give Legend of the Galactic Heroes a watch especially since you're into politics. It's a hard sci-fi series about space Prussia versus space USA and is very relevant to today's political climate despite bring made in the 80s/early 90s. It's legitimately one of the best tv shows I have ever seen, animated or not. I need to get back to watching this, one of the first few episodes has a great series of events where a grieving war widow protests the deaths of the soldiers during the Secretary of Defense of Not-USA's speech, admonishing him for the comparatively nonexistent risk and sacrifice he makes comfortably from behind a desk, and he responds by calling for civility, getting her thrown out, then later covertly pointing right-wing extremists her way to terrorize her at her home.
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Solitair posted:What were the warning signs in that one? I haven't seen it and I don't know much about it. No particularly huge sirens from my memories, but kind of a general feeling. I saw some critics nail it is a weirdly conservative film at times. I cut it a lot of slack at the time because it's intentionally an exploitation-style prison fight movie. But, the main hero's a cool, white tough drug runner who doesn't want to work with those awful cartels, and what do you know but they come in and don't respect anyone and gently caress it all up. He's in jail because instead of running away he stays behind to stop straight up cartel super soldiers from massacring a bunch of cops. There's an interrogation scene with a Blue Lives Matter edge to it. The first insult against the main character is the detective asking if he wants to wipe his rear end on the flag...because he hates America...because he's selling drugs. There''s a lot of edge-lord stuff about how evil and powerful a cartel dude is. Maybe  The central push of the movie is that Vincent D'onofrio has to get bumped up to solitary in southern domestic Gitmo, basically, or else the cartel is going to slowly amputate limbs from his unborn child, abort it, and generall torture/kill his wife...it's something. And while the evil prison guard is clearly the villain, there's a weird...admiration, or something, for him. It reminded me of the guy in the Stanford Prison experiment who wanted nothing more than to be the warden from Cool Hand Luke. Not one specific problem, but it starts to form a picture. If you make one Western with vaguely problematic themes, okay, well doing old film homages is tricky. It's like Cuphead. There's baggage even if you try. But then you do it again. And then you cast Mel Gibson to do a movie that's weirdly sympathetic to lovely, racist cops. I haven't seen Dragged Across Concrete yet, to be fair, because I don't want to pay to see it. What I've heard made it sound like the same problems as always turned up to 11 though.
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Solitair posted:The original novels are being translated, too. On a similar note, I'd also like to recommend Monster and 20th Century Boys, though the latter was never animated. monster takes way too long to get going imo, but if we're talking classic Urasawa, you really can't beat:  it's also getting an anime!!!
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Solitair posted:The original novels are being translated, too. On a similar note, I'd also like to recommend Monster and 20th Century Boys, though the latter was never animated. One of Guillermo Del Toro's many unrealized projects was an HBO series of Monster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruQsv709MA0
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I do think the bewildering stuff like schoolgirl battleship anime has some value if you approach it like outsider art or something off of deesillustration, where it’s foreign enough to seem exciting and alien, but still reads as a uniquely horrible indictment of your own culture Your time’s still better spent on actually good art, but having at least a passing familiarity with terrible art is still useful for crystallizing your thoughts on things. See also: Ready Player One
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honestly making battleships into creepy fetish girls is outright mild compared to the brutal war porn that the US media industry engages in all the loving time
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dmboogie posted:todd's got a new one hit wonderland - You Get What You Give by New Radicals Oh man, that song was loving HUGE in New Zealand back in 1999. Like, that song was everywhere and then they seemed to drop right off the face of the Earth. I'd always wondered what had happened to them.
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It's also worth noting that S. Craig Zahler wrote the screenplay for Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich which is an absolutely loving  movie
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the chinese Girls Frontline (every possible tactical firearm is rendered as a schoolgirl) is like the most affecting work of art in the modern culture of incel mass shooters. which is to say, maybe there’s some faraway land where Zahler’s fuckin turds are actually stirring works of outsider art
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:It's also worth noting that S. Craig Zahler wrote the screenplay for Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich which is an absolutely loving That's in the same series as the Full Moon Puppet Master series, right? Blade, Pinhead, Torch, Tunneler, all of them?
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Vagabundo posted:Oh man, that song was loving HUGE in New Zealand back in 1999. Like, that song was everywhere and then they seemed to drop right off the face of the Earth. I'd always wondered what had happened to them. That one and the follow-up were both colossal in Brazil as well. Like, even odds of it instantly being played on the radio whenever you turned it on big.
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dmboogie posted:todd's got a new one hit wonderland - You Get What You Give by New Radicals
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A big flaming stink posted:monster takes way too long to get going imo, but if we're talking classic Urasawa, you really can't beat: I will fully agree it's a real slow burn to get going (about 12-13 episodes to get everything in order and kick off the main plot proper) but it really rewards the commitment and those early episodes are still important to put everything in place for the full 74-episode run. Also 20th Century Boys is currently running a re-release with the Perfect Editions of the manga, so it's a good time to give it a read. It's up to volume 4 of (probably) 12. A big flaming stink posted:
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Re: Isekai What's the consensus on The Saga of Tanya the Evil?
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I'll be honest that I haven't seen Tanya the Evil for myself, but the only person I know who reccomended it to me was a guy who complained about SJWs, threw stuff when he was mad, and then lamented that he didn't have a girlfriend. So it might be good but I'm not real interested in giving the benefit of the doubt.
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I've not checked it out either, only heard that it's got a  premise but doesn't actually do anything terrible with it apparently.The current hot isekai is That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, which is about a guy who is stabbed during a mugging and...is reincarnated as a slime. It's pretty good. when he's reincarnated he starts to build a nation of monsters so they can survive in a world of adventurers. The anime was very successful and is getting a second season, the arc it will go into is apparently outstanding too based on what folks who have read the light novels have said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma0wT9pR1XY
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Arcsquad12 posted:Macross Plus, OVA edition. Thank me later. Four hours long, top notch music and animation, and a really good story that is Top Gun IN SPAAAAACE with a strong cast. Seriously this. The movie version cuts out so much great stuff. Plus the lead role is played by an unrecognizably young Brian Cranston.
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My understanding of Tanya is that it's pretty clear about Tanya being a piece of poo poo at least, though I've never actually watched it I read through spider girl isekai and I loved it (Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?) e: wait this isn't ADTRW
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